So ... we're not supposed to do this (?) technically, but as you know, this story is pretty much dead. And it hasn't been touched in so long that I - Foxy - have gotten a new computer and everything and the notes for this is lost somewhere on a backup drive ... two years. Wow. It's been a really long time, eh?

This story isn't going to be completed. I lost interest in the manga itself for a myriad of reasons, and a LOT of life events happened. I honestly don't remember all the details planned for this story anymore, but I can go over what I DO remember being planned - if that's agreeable for you, and maybe to bring some closure. This is going to be short and likely confusing.

Edolas Arc: A number of characters were meant to be dropped into Edolas, the creature in the skies being a "god". Edolas!Natsu was meant to be a child, about eight years old, clearly knowledgeable and a mechanic at that, but not part of the Fairy Tail guild of Edolas. Some of the other characters were meant to be shifted around as well. The largest reveal was that several of the "gods" - based on planets, I remember that the one that was supposed to be peering down on them is designed after one of the moons of Saturn - were dropped into Edolas following a great war (that was hinted at quite a bit in a previous arc), along with massive ships that became "towers" - meaning, large-ass ships fell from wherever into Edolas, crashing into its version of the ground and literally becoming towers. The biggest reveal was to be that Edolas was no longer just a king-led place; a lot of people took refuge in these fallen ships - aka towers - as a kind of protest in anarchy. However two ships were not inhabited because they were "alien graveyards", so to speak: a lot of the dead from this great war were burried in the ships, so it kind of spooks the locals out. The mute Natsu goes to Edolas because he was alerted to BY the Edolas' version of himself. They clearly both know about the God problem (giant beasts) that were accidentally re-awakened by some of the king's activities. Towards the end, it is revealed that the two Natsus actually know each other a LOT more closely than either imagined, and that they know of "other Natsus", too - the Edolas version warning the other that there's evidence of a major shift, or extinction, across all of the worlds occuring, because of "sins committed during the war". Things seemingly return to normal after this.

The ensuing arc was meant to be a completely original one, in which Gajeel and his company were to go to where Natsu just was: in the East. Gajeel is familiarizing himself with the area, while learning more about the conquerors that are mentioned. The conqueror that that city was founded with was "just a child", one that the older man remembers well ...

Tenrou Island was the game-changer. It is revealed that Natsu does have several different draconic abilities, and is basically a dragon himself. Natsu was at Tenrou Island because he was invited to be one of the test-takers, considering how much he's done for Fairy Tail and all at this point. He fights with the dragon, but the timeskip still occurs: however, not everyone was meant to be frozen. I recall that several characters, such as Wendy, Cana, etc., were meant to grow up, and it was for a longer period of time - I want to say ten, twelve years. Natsu has basically vanished with the dragon at this time, caught "in its belly".

When they get back to the new time, they realize that the Fairy Tail guild has essentially shut its doors and become a mobile guild, in the East: this is huge, because we finally have the returned characters looking for their partners, and meeting with Neall and others and learning more about the War(s).

Umm, past this point, we didn't hammer everything out as finite, so I'll just go over the big themes / reveals we were meant to have:

- Dragon slayers reincarnate. It is the ... I want to say birthers' job to seek out the reincarnations and return them to their dragons. The dragons are essentially a species with a schism, in which a part of themselves are reborn as human - or otherwise - dragon slayers. Without the dragons, the dragon slayers themselves are no longer reincarnating. The Birther - who is Natsu, by the way - recognizes them, because Natsu is a lot older than one would think. I want to say we planned on him being 300 - 400 years old.

- On Natsu. The person he is as we described him is much older. He was the conqueror, the child, that the city in the East remembers. He was a tiny child with Igneel, but some dragon hunters fucked things up and destroyed Igneel's nest; Natsu, being Igneel's dragon slayer, fought them with what he could, and could only really save one barely-hatched dragon that was severely injured during the fight; Natsu, injured himself, and knowing he'd reincarnate, lets the dragon eat him (yeah), and Igneel returns to find Natsu nearly dead and disemboweled, and the one remaining dragon hatchling basically braindead. Angst everywhere. Igneel committed a great sin by performing a magical deal in which he fused what remained of the dragon with his dragon slayer, and vanished for it. Natsu gained both the dragons' abilities AND the dragons' lifespan, and it explains some of his more draconic features / wounds, because not everything could be fused. He also has a dragons' voice, which is why he never speaks. Now, more about this: we've hinted that dragon slayers reincarnate and are a part of their dragons. The birther in the woods, sensing that it was "impossible" for him to have his own lure? That was Natsu sensing his dragon slayer to his "dragon half". He had given up on the idea that he had one at all, assuming he was more human than dragon. He never sensed he had one until now, because sometimes the dragonslayer souls get halved themselves as twins ... once that happens, a dragon always has two dragonslayers reincarnating, and he can never sense the dragon slayers unless the two dragon slayers are in each others' presence. Guess who: Gray and Jellal. Natsu allowed the dragons to declare him a birther, or intermediary, who could find the reincarnations because Natsu was old enough to remember them, and has the draconic abilities to sense them. It explains why he approaches the dragon slayers with extreme familiarity.

- Natsu's early life was hard. He became the conqueror for the city because he was stranded after Igneels' sudden disappearance, and he met people who needed to create their own land, etc.; he basically followed in Jellal's footsteps, vanishing once more when he realized war wasn't the way. However, the dragons themselves get into a huge spat with the spirits. (There's the Loke thing coming in.) Loke is unaware that Natsu is the one and the same as the thing he remembers, but he senses the danger. Anyway! This spirit-dragon war is the major one everyone keeps alluding to, and why the dragons and spirits hate each other so freakin' much. The dragons thought they could destroy the spirits' sources of power by sealing gates ... but instead of the spirit gates they were sealing, they were going to go into the opposite direction. Why seal the spirit gates when you can seal the planetary gates, thereby curbing the power in such a way that the spirit magic no longer has much effect on the land - earth? Natsu was one of these people sent in to handle it, and he effectively became a general. Some of the "gods" - or planetary spirits - had to be defeated, others made deals with the armies of Natsu and dragon slayers, etc., but the spirits quickly caught on and wouldn't have it. The spirit world decided to concurrently act and instigate an extinction of dragons / dragon slayers so the planetary sealing would no longer have effect. The spirits, including those like Loke and the King, started to attack parallel worlds ... including that of Edolas, killing the counterparts to the dragons / dragon slayers. This dragged in a lot of people affiliated with Edolas, and two other parallel universes, into the major war, in which both Natsu and Edolas Natsu were leading along with several others. Time passes differently in the parallel world, so the edolas version of him focused his energy on developing a way to keep himself and several others immortal, hoping to curb the extinction events across the parallel worlds. The war did not end well: the planetary gates were all effectively bargained with or sealed. The spirits did lose a lot of their power, and the dragons lost so many in numbers that they were effectively defunct. Neither side was happy, but Natsu - being immortal - has access to several of these gates / deals, in which he can summon the power of gods to defeat other gods ... such as what was meant to happen in the Edolas arc.

- Afterwards Natsu resigned himself to research and acting as the Birther / dragon slayer seeker for the remaining dragons. The dragons eventually vanished, going to another dimension, realizing they weren't going to survive much longer; by doing so, Natsu knows the dragon slayers aren't going to reincarnate anymore. He's taking the time to seek out the remaining ones and inform them that it's their last lives, and / or to avoid the spirits lest they meet an early death. However, there's something more Natsu intends to do ...

- Edolas Natsu goes to earth after Natsu's disappearance; as the time-skip occurs, he's revealed to be working on something huge, because they sense a "final conflict" is about to occur, and he is helping Natsu work on a project, even though Natsu himself is absent for a while. The project is essentially breaking into the magical gateway, in which Natsu wanted to stop Igneel from fusing himself with the dragon hatchling - knowing that the events that followed were a major reason why the spirits got angry with the dragons, and that the entire war happened. He knows the balance of the worlds has been greatly disturbed by it, and that magic might die out if the gates remain closed forever (and if the extinction event occurs, as it already is). He also wants to help a dragon slayer, Zeref, with his woes, having met Zeref during his time as a conqueror.

- I honestly don't remember much of what comes after because it wasn't thoroughly planned just then, except that it involved a lot of this stuff being revealed ... the ending was meant to bring Erza and Natsu closer, and Natsu nearly being successful in his project - only interference from Fairy Tail accidentally generated a second set of parallel universes separate from their own, one in which Natsu DID tell Igneel not to do what he did ... but because he didn't complete what he meant to do, the second set of universes closed and re-wrote themselves into the canon universe that we understand today. Natsu, upon seeing that in that universe he was a part of Fairy Tail, is somewhat satisified ... but he feels that he's a relic of the wars, much like the older spirits and dragons, and decides to join the dragons to where they went. The story also ends with Lucy, Gray, and some others deciding they will help heal the planetary gates, and Loki and Natsu were meant to resolve their differences.

I'm probably forgetting a lot of it (two - three years since I've touched it), and maybe I've forgotten an explanation here or there ... but if you have questions, I will try to answer them with what I remember. Maybe I'll find the outline we had somewhere in the back-up drives ... but, hopefully this is satisfactory to a degree. If y'all really miss me, I'm actually part of a different fandom now - Boku no Hero Academia - under a different username on Tumblr / AO3 ... (especially if any of you like villain!Deku stuff, I've got popular things there) ... I'd really rather not accidentally tempt folks from here to there only to pester me there about stuff here, stuff that'll not be completed ... but if you PM me, I can give you my new information. (Kitty no longer writes fanfiction.)

Thank you, and sorry, and everything else!